Animal exploiters will tell you and anyone else who is against what they’re doing that you’re wrong, extreme, ignorant, uneducated, and simply don’t know what you’re talking about. 'Have you ever been to a dairy farm?', is a typical question they’ll use when people badmouth their vile industries. Implying you can’t actually know what you’re talking about because you’ve never even stepped foot onto a farm. With this logic we also can’t assume that prisons and concentration camps aren’t good places to have to exist since we’ve never visited them personally.
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Animal abusers who “farm” animals have a large arsenal of excuses, arguments, and propaganda tactics to appease their own consciousness as well as the consciousness of those who choose to support their evil practices. When informed people who truly care about animals speak the truth about what awfulness and injustice takes place in various animal ag industries farmers are always quick to deflect, discredit, dismiss, and debunk.
For example, as far as dismissing and debunking goes, if someone disapprovingly expresses how the calves are taken away from mother cows immediately after birth in the dairy industry a dairy farmer or someone else associated with the industry or animal agriculture in general may reply that no harm is committed within this practice since the mother lacks maternal instincts (since they’ve been “bred out” of her) so she doesn’t actually mind her baby being abducted, the baby is now safer (because mom could “injure or kill them”), and it’s also healthier for the calf since now they can be bottle fed colostrum (that they would have otherwise nursed naturally from their mother if given the chance)…
No matter how much you’ve seen and taken in firsthand, animal exploiters will still tell you and anyone else who is against what they’re doing that you’re wrong, extreme, ignorant, uneducated, and simply don’t know what you’re talking about… “Have you ever been to a dairy farm” and “You should actually visit a dairy farm” are comments they’ll use when people badmouth their vile industries. This is to imply that if you just get off your ass and actually go to an animal farm yourself you’ll see how wonderful they are and how they aren’t the mean places you’ve seen in photos, videos, and writings that all capture reality in an easy-to-understand and shareable way. You can’t actually know what you’re talking about because you’ve never even stepped foot onto a farm. With this logic I guess we also can’t assume that prisons, detention centers, homeless shelters, and concentration camps aren’t good places to have to exist since we’ve never visited them personally…
The question shouldn’t be “have you ever even been to a farm,” the question should be “have you ever even been to a farmed animal sanctuary?” In other words, have you ever seen what’s possible, or have you ever seen the radically different way that we can treat these animals—a way that doesn’t automatically deal them a lifetime of trauma, misery, suffering, and unimaginable pain. Because this is the way farmed animals could live, should live, and deserve to live—if they are already in existence.
And sadly far too many people are unaware of this type of relationship with and environment for animals. Even worse, way too many people are not even curious to explore this much evolved and just form of cohabitating with other life. We have ethical alternatives to nearly everything and we owe the golden rule to others who happened to be born inside the bodies of other species. The ethical alternative to animal exploitation farms isn’t a better exploitation farm that’s a little less mean or violent or degrading, the ethical alternative is a farm that doesn’t exploit animals in the first place, but rather provides them with love, care, compassion, and the ability to thrive and live in the type of peace that we all wish for ourselves. SOURCE…
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